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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464390403321

Titolo

A guide to reading and writing Japanese : a comprehensive guide to the Japanese writing system / / first edition compiled by Florence Sakade ; third edition revised by Kenneth Henshall, Christopher Seeley & Henk de Groot ; fourth edition revised by Janet Ikeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

North Clarendon, Vermont : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4629-1482-9

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

495.682421

Soggetti

Japanese language - Writing

Japanese language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Frontcover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Aim""; ""2 This Book and the Modern Japanese Writing System""; ""2.1 About the Characters Selected""; ""2.2 How Characters Are Read in Japanese""; ""2.3 Writing Characters""; ""2.4 Romanization""; ""2.5 Kana Signs and Combinations""; ""3 Layout Details""; ""4 Final Notes""; ""5 Select Bibliography of Main Works Consulted for This Edition""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""The 1,006 ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS""; ""Grade One: Characters 1�80""; ""Grade Two: Characters 81�240""; ""Grade Three: Characters 241�440""

""Grade Four: Characters 441�640""""Grade Five: Characters 641�825""; ""Grade Six: Characters 826�1,006""; ""Section 2: The 2,136 General-Use Characters""; ""Radical Index""; ""Index of Readings""; ""Other Ebooks""; ""Backcover""